Verb

(remitt)

To forgive, pardon.

* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 307:

So he said that there was no sin to remit in baptism: ‘sin is not born with a man, it is subsequently committed by the man; for it is shown to be a fault, not of nature, but of the human will’.

To refrain from exacting or enforcing.

to remit the performance of an obligation

* Macaulay

The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties.

To give up, stop succumbing to (a negative emotion etc.).

To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).

(obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.

*, New York 2001, p.132-3:

Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity […], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride.

(obsolete) To diminish, abate.

*, Book I, New York 2001, p. 139:

Dotage, fatuity, or follyis for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].

To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).

* Blackstone

In the case the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right.

* Hayward

In grievous and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince.

* Dryden

The prisoner was remitted to the guard.

To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

To restore.

* Hayward

The archbishop wasremitted to his liberty.

To postpone.

To transmit or send, as money in payment.

* 2003:' The Hindu, ''World Cup sponsors can '''remit money in forex: SC read at [http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/02/01/stories/2003020104090100.htm] on 14 May 2006

The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.

Verb

To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

* to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.

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To lose weight.

To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

* to reduce a sergeant to the ranks

* An ancient but reduced family. --.

* Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --.

* Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- .

* Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced . --.

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Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

* to reduce a province or a fort

To bring to an inferior state or condition.

* to reduce a city to ashes

(cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

(chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

(metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

(mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

(legal) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").

* It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.

(medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

(military) To reform a line or column from (a square).